The Brookhaven leader., 1887-07-28
Aorrxe SECRETARY MuLDRow has denied


q petition from the Central Pacific Railroad
Company, asking that the Commissioner Of
the General Land Once be instructed to
issue patents TO the Central Pacific Com
pany on lands amounting TO l94, ,05l acres in
the Sacramento, Cal, land district.
THE powder house Of the Chicago
Coal Company exploded at Streetor,
Ill, recently, being struck by lightning.
Forty FIVE dwellings we're destroyed and
several persons were fatally and seriously
injured.
AN Englishman who attempted the as
cent Of the Diavolezza mountains, Switzer-
land, recently, without a guide fell over
precipice and was killed.
The new silver certificates, each repre-
senting 900 ounces, issued by the Western
National Bank, being ready for use, have
been placed on the regular list OF the New
York Stock Exchange and classed under
mining shares"
ADIsPATCH from Glasgow, Scotland, says:
The Firth of DINA has been lost in cyclone
in Java waters Her entire crew, number
ing twenty-five, perished.
Two of the children of Mrs. G. A. Heath
were burned to death at Montrose, Col,
during her absence from home the other
day.
THE people of Taylor County, KY, have
boy ycotted Marshal Gross and his assist
ants, who undertook to seize property in
payment Of interest on bonds under order
of the United States Court. No attempt at
violence was offered the officers, but they
were refused food and lodging and sued
for trcspass when camping.
DAVE HOFFMAN, who wrecked train on
the Missouri Pacific near Dunbar, Neb., last
fOr nf
hanged on the I'D at Nebraska City for his
crime. The engineer of the ill-fated train
was killed and the conductor shockingly
injured.
THE freight war between the Atchison
system in Texas and the Texas Traffic As
socation ended on the 2lst.
THE count Of cash IN the United States
treasury ended on the 22d. a deficiency
of g.. so was discovered, which was traced
back many years to an error of one OF the
clerks, who made the deficiency good, thus
balancing the accounts.
The clothing house Of a. c. Burbank at
st. Paul, Mimi, burned the other night
Loss, $3.50, 900; two-thirds insured.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) during
the seven days ended July 21 numbered for
the United States 147; for Canada, 25:
total, 172, compared with 179 the previous
week and 1873 the corresponding week of
last year
BOLT Of lightning struck small row
boat in Princess bay Staten Island, during
the squall on the 22d, and instantly killed
Michael J. Bixon and John A. Bryan, Of
New York.
ANOTHER crank named Kellet, soldier
from Hampton, was arrested at the White
House the other day and locked up on a
charge Of drunkenness. He visited the
White House, he said "to take possession
of the executive manslon.o No weapon
was found on him.
THE Hanson Printing Company, of Chi
cago, has made an assignment with S225, 900
liabilities and nominally equal assets. No
cause is assigned for the failure. This is
the establishment that printed the famous
forged ballots that were instrumental in
sending Joseph c. Mackin to the peniten-
tiary.
LAND-sEEKERs in from the Wisconsin
woods report tornado passing through
the vicinity of the Rainy river district, and
the township of Allis, Presque Isle County,
doing immense damage to standing pine.
In one forty acre tract not tree was left
standing.
THE police of Limerick, Ireland, have
been ordered to carry revolvers.
JOHNS & Co., photographers Of Cleveland,
O., lost $4,000 by fire the other day.
THE steamship Allie, which reached New
York on the 22d, brought $4,000 in gold
from Europe.
THE 1,S0O employees of the Reading (Pa-
iron works, who struck against a reduc-
ton, have returned to work at the old
wages.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has appointed a
board of naval officers to take the cruiser
Atlanta out to sea and give her thorough
test.